The process of documentary filmmaking, after the pre-production stages of research, scripting and acquiring finance, entails the filming of a wealth of material you feel is relevant to the issues (proposed content), and the script as written or as evolving. Naturally, there are constraints that arise which mean there is often a significant body of interesting or useful material that never makes the final edit.

We have gone through our original material, and present here a short selection of extended interviews or previously unused 'raw materials' that we hope will provide a useful base for research, or further understanding of the core issues of the film.

Visualising Guatemala's Programme of Political Murder. Part 2: 'Getting the Image Out', in 1981. Spanish and English.(3.47)

In this clip, Jean Marie Simon tells us about her experiences as a photographer in Guatemala in the 80's. In the absence of freight carriers, like DHL or Fedex, and certainly without access to the internet, it was extremely difficult to get photographic film out of Guatemala and to a wider world.

The attacks on the leadership of GAM, April 1985 English, (5.11)

Jean-Marie Simon re-tells the story of her travelling back to Guatemala City with Rosario Godoy de Cuevas and other members of GAM, after the funeral of Héctor Gómez Calito in the Spring of 1985. The women reflect on the historical moment, and whether they should expect further attacks on the leadership of GAM over Easter Week. Within days, Rosario, her 2 year-old son, and her younger brother had been abducted, tortured, and murdered.

In a recent and revealing analysis of the origins of the infamous Guatemalan Military Diary, Alberto Fuentes (co-director of the Historical Police Archive of Guatemala) describes the chance 'intelligence coup' that gave rise to much of the content of this military intelligence document being sourced, under torture or otherwise.

Noam Chomsky

Professor Noam Chomsky's full interview, which takes the US CIA's intervention to overthrow the elected government of Jacobo Arbenz as its starting point.

El Presidente de Estados Unidos Dwight D. Eisenhower, con su secretario de Estado John Foster Dulles. Dulles quien fue al mismo tiempo Consejero Administrativo de la United Fruit Company. Esta compañía había establecido un amplio control de las tierras de Guatemala durante la época del dictador militar Jorge Ubico Castañeda. / US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, with his Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Dulles was at the same time on the Board of Directors of the United Fruit Company, which had had established extensive control of Guatemalan land during the era of the military dictator Jorge Ubico Castañeda. (1954)